Adnan Hussein al-Masri

Adnan Hussein al-Masri (born 27 June 1953) was a member of the Egyptian Islamist Party from 1992 to 2001, when he was arrested for terrorism.

Biography
Adnan Hussein al-Masri was born on 27 June 1953 in Luxor, Egypt to an Arab Muslim family. al-Masri became a muezzin after graduating from Quranic studies at Al-Azhar University and al-Masri had sympathies with Islamist groups in the country. al-Masri became the leader of Students for a Greater Islam movement, a student organization of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, during the late 1970s. He was arrested in 1981 along with many other Islamists after the murder of President Anwar Sadat and al-Masri was sentenced to five years in prison for giving financial aid to the EIJ. al-Masri was released after only two and he became a member of the Egyptian Islamist Party, becoming one of the representatives of the Islamists in Parliament in the winter of 1992. Al-Masri was a legal politician until 2001, when he was arrested by the government of Egypt at the request of the United States, who believed that he was a supporter of al-Qaeda financially. Al-Masri was imprisoned in Cairo until 2012, when he was freed by President Mohamed Morsi.